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to run this laboratory inclusive of the cutter are only some $6,000 a year. To this 

 may, however, be added heating, electricity, gardening and cleaning plus the 

 salaries for all staff. I think that the whole amount : salaries and any funds to 

 run the laboratory will comprise some $30,000 a year, all in all. 



This amount, however, is already too small. We have a daily "headache" in 

 applying for new grants. More than 100 students have their classes here every 

 summer. We permanently have some three to four UNESCO fellows to be 

 trained here, 1 year each, and research workers from Lund and Copenhagen and 

 actually from the whole world come here to work for shorter or longer periods. 

 We just got a grant of $15,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation for a radio- 

 telephone for our boat, for microscopes, and for buying periodicals for our 

 library. Nevertheless, we still urgently need more microscopes, but our urgent 

 problem is space. As you probably know, the Rockefeller Foundation will not 

 give money for buildings. Here we are, dependent on the Danish Government, 

 and since we are only 2% years old, the Government will hardly feel it justified 

 to give us money for new buildings during the first 5 years. As I told you, we 

 are already up to 70 years later in having a marine station than, for instance 

 Sweden, and the number of scientists and students working here, since the 

 station was established, is increasing nearly "like an explosion." Our whole 

 laboratory, comprising two floors only, is only 9 by 25 feet long, and already now 

 our students are crowding so densely that it is a real problem for us. 



We need a new building. All our needs for the first 5-6 years may be covered 

 by a sum of $150,000, but we are fully sure that, could we only manage to get a 

 grant of some $50,000 from outside to start the new building, we might be able 

 to get the rest from enthusiastic Scandinavian industries and factories. In this 

 country, it plays an enormous part, when we can start a new program with some 

 help from outside. 



Knowing that you are in a most important position in the center of planning 

 for oceanographical research in your country, I should like to call your atten- 

 tion to this point and ask for your advice, if you know of any funds or institu- 

 tions which might give grants for scientific buildings in Scandinavia. 



As you will see from our collaboration program sketched above, we do our very 

 best to exploit any amount in the most economical way. Dr. Pomerat from the 

 Rockefeller Foundation was deeply impressed when he saw how large and well 

 equipped a boat we had managed to build for the $30,000 he gave us, and our 

 economical exploitation of these funds was directly causing the new Rockefeller 

 grant, we have just received. 



It is curious, after having sketched for you our very successful inter-Scandi- 

 navian collaboration and the great interest which our four governments have 

 taken in this program, to have to admit, that, as soon as new buildings are 

 concerned we have to fight a bitter fight with the Ministry. So, this lack of 

 space which very soon will force us to reduce our research and training program, 

 may easily be a serious "bottleneck" for our most successful program. 



I forgot to mention that our "Nordic Council" is working closely together with 

 the Marine Laboratory in Miami, Fla., to have started regular exchange of two 

 Scandinavian and two American jEellows in marine biology each year. A founda- 

 tion is already established (see the enclosed letterhead with the flags of the 

 five nations), and the first Scandinavian fellow is already working in Florida. 

 Also, a permanent grant for a Scandinavian fellow at Napoli will start very 

 soon, and we hope to get two more fellowships for Scandinavian marine biolo- 

 gists to go to Bimini, Bahamas, each year. 



In Europe our program of collaboration inside Scandinavia has been received 

 with the greatest interest. Actually, we have in all four countries a group of 

 most enthusiasitic marine biologists at present, and a new group of young stu- 

 dents is coming up. So we have to exploit this opportunity to build up an efl3- 

 eient program. I do not have any printed material on my station and the col- 

 laboration program but hope this will give you the information you want. If not, 

 please let me know, and I will do my very best to add new facts to the above. 



With kindest personal regards. 

 Sincerely, 



GUNNAB ThORSOJT. 



Mr. Olb^e. I feel this is a must, the exchange of personnel Dr. Cox 

 touched upon in his remarks. There is no suhstitnte for this, as I 

 see it. You can search the literature, you can read and be laiowledge- 

 able in literature and literature techniques, but the matter of eye-to- 



